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Offenbach Overture:
I Orpheus in the Underworld ; Philharmonia/Karajan
7.09 Schubert Lied des
Orpheus: Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano)
7.14 Liszt Symphonic Poem: Orpheus: RPO/ Thomas Beecham
7.30am News
7.35 Bach Suite No 4 in D: English Baroque Solists/Gardiner
7.59 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 23 in A
(K 488): Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano). Records

Stravinsky
The King of the Stars
Berlin RSO and Chorus/
Riccardo Chailly Violin Concerto Itzhak
Perlman Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa Four Norwegian Moods Cleveland Orch/Chailly Mass: English Bach
Festival Orchestra and Chorus/Bernstein. Records

from 10.30 with Susan Sharpe. Weber Horn Concertino Anthony Halstead (horn) Hanover Band/Goodman
9.50 Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre (Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes) Philip Ledger (organ)
9.55 Dohnanyi Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 42 Ernst von Dohnanyi (piano); RPO/Boult
10.25 Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B flat Julian Jacobson (piano) Philippa Davies (flute) Anthony Lamb (clarinet) Johnathan Williams (horn) Felix Warnock (bassoon)
10.55 Satie La Diva de l'empire: Elly Ameling (sop); Rudolf Jansen (piano). Records

The NatWest Trophy semi-finals: commentary and reports on both matches, including at:
12.50 1.00 News

Suk Quartet of Prague Josef Suk (viola) live from the Queen's Hall. Schumann Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1 Martinii Quartet No 4
11.45 Third Ear in Edinburgh: Professor Martin Kemp discusses the exhibition Cezanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape at the National Gallery of Scotland, with Professor Sir Lawrence Gowing and Denis Coutange , Director of the Musee Granet , Aix-en-Provence. Producer Judith Bumpus
12.05 Mozart Quintet in G minor (K 516) (In association with Tate and Lyle)

conductor Edward Downes Michael Collins (clarinet) Rossini Overture: William Tell Finzi Clarinet Concerto Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso (R)

Act 3 of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, recorded by the Prague National Theatre, under its director Otakar Ostrcil. Mono record: 1933

with Benediction. Live from All Saints' Church, Margaret Street. Introit: I Beheld Her Beautiful as a Dove (Healey Willan ); Responses and Psalm 147: Plainsong; Lessons (RSV): Isaiah 61, v 10, to 62, v 5; Ephesians 1, v 16, to 2, v 10; Office Hymn (NEH 180): Hail 0 Star; Canticles: The Gloucester Service (Howells); Anthem: Assumpta est Maria (Palestrina); Hymn (NEH 18): Her Virgin Eyes Saw God Incarnate Born; Motets: 0 Salutaris, Tantum Ergo (Faure), Salve Regina (Poulenc); Organ Voluntary: Ave Maria (Reger) Director of Music Harry Bramma ; Assistant Organist Nicholas Luff

Lucy Duran presents songs and dances from Mexico. Records (R)

with Richard Baker Producer David Papp

Sir John Gielgud reads five monologues from E F Benson's Victorian peepshow. In As We Were, along with personal reminiscences of his gifted parents, Benson presents a charming, witty and indiscreet gallery of Victorian eccentrics.
1: Lincoln- Truro Compiler Donald Bancroft Director John Theocharis (R)

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists leader Alison Bury conductor
John Eliot Gardiner live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Gluck Orfeo ed Euriduce (sung in Italian) (counter-tenor)(soprano) (soprano)
Acts 1 and 2 8.20 Other Kingdoms
Jeremy Beadle considers the Orpheus myth.
8.40 Act 3
(Berlioz version of Gluck 's opera tomorrow at 2. 00pm)

with David Owen Norris (R)

Thomas Indermuhle with Wolfgang Watzinger Bach Sonata in A
(BWV 1032)
Dutilleux Sonata
Jolivet Serenade (R)

Elgar Concert Allegro, Op 46; In the South, Op 50;
Evening Scene; Introduction and Allegro, Op 47